Golf club



Oct. 14, 1930. w. B. PEDERsx-:N 1,778,122

GOLF CLUB Filed Jan. 19,l 1929 INVENTOR WAZ Tf?? B. PEEZS'N.

ATTORNEY I Patented Oct. 14, 1930 UNirED STATES Paireln OFFICE GOLF einen Application led January 19, 1929. Serial No. 333,717.

My invention is particularly directed to golf irons made with a steel shaft which is Covered with a Celluloid sheathing. The inventioncontemplates an iron whereby a steel shaft covered with a Celluloid sheathing may be made to resemble a wooden shaft without any departure from the conventional appearance of these clubs.

Heretofore, the use of a steel shaft has been more or less restricted to the woo-den clubs such as the driver, spoon and brassie. In adapting the steel shaft to the irons, it was necessary, in order to prevent any abrupt changes or shoulders at the connection of the shaft and the head, to depart from the conventional appearance of the irons. The common commercial hollow steel shaft cannot well be abruptly fiared out and then reduced in diameter on entering the hozel as is done with the wooden shaft to make a flush joint. Therefore, in order to avoid a substantial shoulder, the hozel has customarily been extended and tapered at the shaft end to a knife edge or substantially the diameter of the shaft at the meeting point of the shaft and hozel. Recently the custom has arisen of covering the steel shaft with a sheathing, and the taper in such cases is usually stopped short of a knife edge leaving a shoulder equal to the thickness of the sheathing which terminates at this point. T he sheathing used in covering the steel shaft is commonly madeto resemble wood, but the departure from the conventional appearance of the golf club is radical and undesirable.

In accordance with my invention, I construct a hozel of such shape that the sheathing covering the shaft may be extended to 'cover the tapered end portion with the surfaces all merging into each other. The ho zel of my invention is provided with a ledge at the base of the tapered end portion which is equal to the thickness of the sheathing covering the shaft. By constructing the h-ozel in this manner, I may extend and flare the celluloid sheathing to cover the'extended end portion of the hozel. This flare is similar to the corresponding flare of the wooden shafts and therefore has the advantage of simulating the exact appearance of the conventional iron equipped with a wooden shaft. Italso has the advantage of permitting a relatively larger socket in the hoZel and hence a more sturdy shaft without increase in outside diameter of the hozel. y

A detailed description of one embodiment of the invention will be given in connection withthe accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a partial longitudinal section of the hozel. the shaft, and the sheathing applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the hozel, and

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the lower portion of the finished club.

In the embodiment illustrated, I provide a head l which comprises a blade 2 and a hozel 3. The hozel is bored as at l to receive a shaft 5. An extended end portion 6 which tapers to a knife edge 7 at its upper end is provided at the shaft end of the hozel 3. A ledge 8 is formed at the base 9 of the tapered end portion 6 of substantially the thickness of the Celluloid sheathing.

The shaft 5 is inserted in the hollow por tion 4, and secured to the head by means of a pin l0. The shaft is then covered with a celluloid sheathing ll which is made to resemble wood, and serves to protect the shaft from rust.

tapered end portion 6 of the hozel 3, and terminates at the ledge 8 formed at the base 9 of the tapered end portion 6.

rI`he tapered end portion 6 is brought to a substantial knife edge 7 by reaming or otherwise enlarging the bore, the degree of taper remaining as before. In forming the knife edge in this manner the hozel has a relatively larger socket thereby permitting the use of a larger and more sturdy shaft without any increase in the outside diameter of the hozel.

rIhe bore 4 of the hozel is shown as tapered and the shaft 5 is correspondingly and uniformly tapered. This construction avoids any shoulder in the shaft at the juncture with the upper end of the hozel which is a distinct advantage since a shoulder on the shaft limits the extent to which the shaft can be entered into the hozel and therefore requires that the The sheathing 11 is flared outwardly at its lower end so as to fit over and cover the size of'the portion of the shaft below kthe shoulder be accurately determined. With my construction the shaft can be inserted until it is tight. Y

It is obvious that Various changes may be made by those skilled in the art Within the scope of my invention as expressed in the apy pended claim. i

l Claim: m A golf club comprising a metal head the hozel of Which has a tapered bore-and an up per end externally tapered oppositely to the taper of the bore and terminating in a knife edge With a circumferential ledge at the bottom of the external taper7 asteel shaft fitting in the bore and having a eontinuous,'uninter -rupted uniform tapereorresponding tothe taperof the bore,` and a sheathingof a uniform thicknessequal tothe Width ofthe ledge oovf f1 ering the Shaft throughout its exposed length and continuing over the tapered upper end of the hozel to 'and terminating at the ledge.

In Witness whereof; I hereunto subscribe my Signature.v i WALTER B. PEDERSEN. 

